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OPINION: The Free Speech Union is taking this one too far.
Most farmers do their best to make sure the herd has been supplemented before calving and assume this will pass on to the calf.
It's that time again to break out the gumboots and a warm coat for the National Fieldays, which for 2023, returns to its normal mid-winter timeslot.
Waikato farmer and businesswoman Jenni Vernon has been appointed the first female president/board chair of the New Zealand National Fieldays Society.
OPINION: A single accurate, independent national animal evaluation index that incorporates genomic information is key to increasing profits for Kiwi dairy farmers.
OPINION: It's not common for industry-good body, DairyNZ and farmerowned co-operative LIC to publicly disagree on a key issue facing the dairy sector.
OPINION: News that the Labour Government is spending taxpayer money to advertise to New Zealanders living in Australia that life is better there now they can get citizenship is appalling.
OPINION: Listed Canterbury milk processor Synlait is fighting an uphill battle to get its business in order.
OPINION: The storm in a teacup caused by The Hound revealing another rural publisher took 'public interest journalism' funding reminds Milking It of an exchange supposedly between Winston Churchill and a socialite he met at a function.
OPINION: Dairy News' stablemate Rural News, specifically The Hound, has upset a rural publisher by outing them for putting their snout deep in the trough of Labour's 'public interest journalism fund', something we refused to do.
A new sun is rising for former Federated Farmers’ president and ACT member of Parliament, Owen Jennings, with a dairy farming venture in Malaysia worth almost $40 million, where plans are to have the first stock airfreighted from New Zealand early next year.
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New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is calling for a slow down on new regulations being heaped on the farming sector.
The call for a single national animal evaluation breeding index that incorporates genetics is causing friction among the dairy sector's key players.
As a child brought up on a dairy farm, Tim Mackle was adamant that he wanted to be a farmer.
Reduced short-term demand from China is impacting farmgate milk price, says Fonterra.
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